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Governor Glenn Youngkin announced several administration and board appointments on Friday, Sept. 29. Among them, Debbie Casey, Wood Rogers Vandeventer Black principal and vice chair, was appointed to Virginia’s Common Interest Community Board. The board regulates...
Terri Denison Last month, Jeffrey F. Brooke was elected chairman of the Norfolk Economic Development Authority. A member of Norfolk’s EDA since 2019, Brooke says he initially volunteered on this citizen’s board “because I was born and raised in Norfolk and have a real...
Carin Simon It was another hole in one event for the Strelitz International Academy’s 35th Annual Golf Tournament, affectionately known as the Bob Josephberg Classic. The tournament took place on Wednesday, August 30 at the Virginia Beach National Golf Club. The Bob...
Robyn Weiner The High Holiday food drive at Ohef Sholom Temple is as much a part of the high holidays as Avinu Malkeinu. Each year, the synagogue’s youth group, OSTY (Ohef Sholom Temple Youth), organizes a food drive to benefit OST’s own soup kitchen and Jewish Family...
Thursday, February 2, 12 pm Want to be better informed about the world? United Jewish Federation of Tidewater’s Jewish Community Relations Council offers one solution to learning: Israel Today’s On Assignment with Lahav Harkov. Jerusalem Post’s senior contributing...
In Sunday School, it is typical to learn the highlights of the sacred memories of the Jewish people of the Biblical period. Then, it gets a bit fuzzy. After the Bible, what was there? Some rabbis, perhaps? It gets clear again with the modern era, the past quarter...
A 10-session intensive course on the Holocaust, The Holocaust as Reflected in Diaries and Memoirs, invited students to dig into the first-person accounts of living through the Holocaust. Diaries and memoirs served as a looking glass into these individuals’ daily...
In a hands-on workshop offered by the Konikoff Center for Learning of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater, community members explored the meaning of their name through a mystical interpretation of the aleph bet. Josh Baum, illustrator of Malka’s Notebook: A...
The Simon Family JCC was filled to the brim with children and their families during the January Sunday Fun Day on Jan. 8. Some made winter-themed crafts, others played interactive inflatable sports games, and all enjoyed spending time with friends, new and old, from...
Tuesday, January 31, 12 pm Virtual, Watch from Home, Free Who am I? Using this question as a guide, artist and author Jean-Pierre Weill takes readers on a philosophical and pictorial adventure into the nature of the self in his new book, Evolve: A Children’s Book for...
Tuesday, February 7, 12 pm Virtual, Watch from Home, Free Polly Adler’s life as a Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe is a classic American story of success and assimilation. In the 1920s, Adler became Manhattan’s most notorious madam, playing hostess to every...
Wednesday, January 25, 12 pm Sandler Family Campus $12 (lunch included) • $6 for 55+ Gaining weight as one ages is not inevitable. It’s avoidable and even reversible. In fact, it’s possible to help stop—and even reverse—age-related weight gain and muscle loss. Heidi...
Wednesday, February 15, 12 pm Virtual, Watch from Home, Free Dr. Michael Roizen is back (online) by popular demand. This time, he is ready to provide concrete steps to take to prepare for the changes of tomorrow—to stay younger longer by extending those best...
Thursday, February 9 Reception: 6:30 pm Performance: 7 pm Sandler Family Campus, Free A story told by a single performer, Every Brilliant Thing is presented in collaboration with Jewish Family Service of Tidewater, YWCA of South Hampton Roads, Virginia Stage Company,...
Saturday, March 4, 8:30 pm Sandler Family Campus, Free Every intelligent young couple starts their marriage with the same dreams, goals, and ideals. They’re sure they will live in married bliss forever...until they aren’t. Until the bickering, fighting, and loneliness...
Sunday, February 12, 4 pm, Temple Israel Free, RSVP required Gil Hoffman was recently listed as one of "The Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life, 2022" by The Algemeiner, a global news destination published online and in print. The former chief political...
The Virginia Festival of Jewish Film, presented by Alma and Howard Laderberg, is marking its 30th Anniversary in February. One of the longest-running Jewish film festivals in the nation, the festival entertains, educates, and engages the Tidewater community by...
Virginia Beach—Stuart Harold Buxbaum, age 87, died peacefully at his home on January 12, 2023. On March 26, 1935, Stuart was born in Jamaica, N.Y., to the late Julius and Margie Buxbaum. He is predeceased by his sister, Carol Waranch. In the 1940s, Julius moved his...
Auburn, Wash.—Abraham Elliot Frank passed away on December 19, 2022, in a hospital in Auburn, Washington of heart failure. His wife, Anita, and his mother, Rita, were with him at the time of his death. Abe was born on May 2, 1968, in Philadelphia, Pa. Most of his...
Virginia Beach—Sonia Goldstein Land, 97, passed away on January 14, 2023. She was born in Portsmouth, Va. on July 27, 1925 to Clara and Jack Goldstein. She was predeceased by Edward R. Land, her husband of 50 years. She leaves behind cousins William, Harry, Linda and...
Richmond, Va.—It is with deep sorrow that we announce the death of Joan H. Goodstein (Richmond, Virginia), born in Baltimore, Maryland, who passed away on December 22, 2022, at the age of 88, leaving to mourn family and friends. A funeral service was held at the...
Midlothian, Va.—Shirley Katz Hoffman, 94 of Midlothian, Va., passed away Wednesday, December 21, 2022. She is preceded in death by her beloved husband, Stanley J. Hoffman; parents, Fred and Anna Katz; and sister, Lucille Hill. Born in Baltimore, Md. and moved to...
Vestal, N.Y.—Morton Ira Hofstein, of Vestal, N.Y., died peacefully on Saturday, December 17 at the age of 77. He was predeceased by his parents, Frances and David Hofstein, and his first wife, Cheryl. Morty is survived by his wife Marcia; his children: Rachel (Jason)...
Chesapeake—Lee N. Kastner, M.D., of Chesapeake, passed away December 9, 2022. He was born in 1924 in Baltimore, Md., and was the son of Clara and Ferdinand Kastner. Lee attended the University of Maryland, the University of Pennsylvania for pre-med, and received his...